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Photo At five is the IBM Blue Gene/P system, seen here, at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The wind-proofing of the coat is shown in yellow and blue, while the heat... [27 Nov 2008]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo In fourth place is the IBM Blue Gene/L system installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US. Finally at five is an IBM Blue Gene/P system, seen... [17 Nov 2008]
High Performance File I/O for the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
White Paper Parallel I/O plays a crucial role for most data-intensive applications running on massively parallel systems like Blue Gene/L that provides the promise of delivering enormous computational capability. [22 Oct 2008]
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AS Profile Named after New Mexico's state bird, Roadrunner is twice as fast as the current IBM Blue Gene number one supercomputer and the first to break the petaflop barrier, meaning it is capable of performing one... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo Another one of the lab's supercomputers, this is IBM's Blue Gene, currently rated the 74th most powerful computer in the world, at 28 teraflops. This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great... [14 Jul 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene. [11 Jun 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue... [07 May 2008]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Paper Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a beneficial effort, but it is not an entirely painless effort. The degree of difficulty derives from the fact that... [09 Apr 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News IBM has dominated the supercomputer rankings with a series of Blue Gene systems for the last several years. After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get... [14 Feb 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of... [20 Nov 2007]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer - located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - is capable of 478.2 trillion operations, or 478.2 teraflops per second. The Blue... [13 Nov 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The world's most powerful supercomputer is the IBM Blue Gene/L system developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The University of Reading now has the most... [11 Jul 2007]
IBM supercomputers getting peta all the time
News IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer - the Blue Gene/P - that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops... [26 Jun 2007]
Big Blue to unwrap extra-brainy chips
News IBM uses SOI to reduce current leakage from the transistors it builds for processors such as the Power 5, and had used embedded DRAM in certain chips such as its Blue Gene processors. IBM is set to... [14 Feb 2007]
Big Blue to help decode the Big Bang?
News The Dutch organisation used IBM's Blue Gene for its Low Frequency Array software telescope. IBM and Astron started working on the design of the chip in October this year, and the first prototype's... [06 Dec 2006]
